'Charmed' reboot headed for CBS

The American channel has ordered a pilot script for a reboot of the fantasy series that first aired in the late 1990s.

According to Vulture.com, “Charmed” could return to TV just seven years after the end of its run on the WB, the channel that subsequently became the CW. “Party of Five” producer Christopher Keyser will head up the series should CBS decide to move ahead with a pilot.

The eight seasons of “Charmed” focused on the lives of the Halliwell sisters, young witches living in modern-day San Francisco. Shannen Doherty, Holly Marie Combs, Alyssa Milano and Rose McGowan played the protagonists — Prue, Piper, Phoebe and Paige — between 1998 and 2006.

The project to reboot “Charmed” is the latest example of a major comeback on U.S. airwaves for the fantasy genre. In recent years, American viewers have tuned in to see the zombies of “The Walking Dead,” the vampires of “True Blood,” “The Vampire Diaries” and “Dracula,” and the folkloric creatures of “Grimm” and “Once Upon a Time.”

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